[arch-general] Information: libcups lib32-libcups

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

libcups is in extra
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libcups/
and it conflicts with the upgrade of lib32-libcups
from multilib
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/lib32-libcups/ .

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb is owned by libcups 2.0.1-1
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ date ; sudo pacman -Syu
Sun Nov 23 15:15:01 CET 2014
[snip]
Packages (10): lib32-gettext-0.19.3-1  lib32-glib2-2.42.1-1
lib32-gmp-6.0.0-1  lib32-gnutls-3.3.10-1 lib32-libcups-2.0.1-1
lib32-libgpg-error-1.17-1  lib32-libpng-1.6.15-1  lib32-libtasn1-4.2-1
lib32-nettle-2.7.1-1  lib32-p11-kit-0.22.1-1
[snip]
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
lib32-libcups: /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo rm /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu

There are no news about it on https://www.archlinux.org/ and also not
on https://www.archlinux.de/ . After removing the existing file, the
upgrade does work.

I wanted to filed a bug report against lib32-libcups, but somebody
already did that:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42882?string=lib32-libcups&project=5&search_name=&type

I don't use cups at the moment, so I'm not sure if it's wise to run rm
as I did, if somebody wants to print.

Regards,
Ralf